A cluster of daffodils

Easter in Wales

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April 25th 2006
It’s Easter Monday and I’m sitting comfortably on a National Rail train on my way back to London, reflecting on the lovely 4-day weekend I’ve just enjoyed in rural Wales. I’ve been visiting with Hazel, a long-time family friend who I lasts saw back in my home town Leeton, aged 12. Back then, Hazel was a 29 year old traveler living in Sydney and working in the Sydney office Dad was locate ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more